Re: Indexes again

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Silas Justiniano <silasju(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Indexes again
Date: 2006-02-02 13:13:05
Message-ID: 43E20561.6030409@archonet.com
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Silas Justiniano wrote:
> Sorry, I'll remake (rewrite? redo? ... bad English :/ ) my question:
>
> I have Books, Authors and Intermediate table. At intermediate I'm
> currently using the following indexes:
>
> CREATE INDEX authorIndex ON Intermediate(author_id);
> CREATE INDEX bookIndex ON Intermediate(book_id);
>
> I need a third index to not allow duplicated data in my table:
>
> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX blablabla ON Intermediate(author_id, book_id);
>
> I'd like to know if, using the third index I can delete one of the
> first. Maybe both?

You can probably delete authorIndex without impacting performance too much.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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